<p>i’ll be honest, i worked on the romantic/mundane question for the last 5 minutes before pulling the trigger.</p>
<p>given the definition for mundane you provide here, it’s a compelling reason for mundane. i have always thought mundane to mean ordinary in a negative way, but if the connotation is neutral than your answer holds.</p>
<p>alternatively, if it met her standards for a romantic book, it must be romantic.</p>
<p>i ended up choosing romantic because there is less room for interpretation. collegeboard may argue that there is negative tone to mundane. but if they go by american heritage, mundane is a superior answer.</p>
<p>yeah, i dont remember the precise phrasing, but he was directly attacking people with the other point of view quite intensely. pretty sure there was a satanic reference in there, too</p>
<p>Bellgerent’s just too extreme of an answer, imo. Plus the passage was weak on hostility and war-likeness. It was more exasperation and annoyance.</p>
<p>the only relevant paragraph is the first since it’s where we see Sousa’s opinion.</p>
<p>within that paragraph i don’t see a general tone of hostility. he calls the phonographs “infernal machines”, which is where you remember the devilish part from i guess. does this equate to belligerence? not in my opinion. infernal in this usage is more similar to annoying/awful. a ‘devilish/fiendish’ interpretation of infernal for an inanimate object would be more suitable for a device that kills. (based on literary usages i’ve seen before) </p>
<p>but taking a step back, the overall tone of the piece doesn’t really read very aggressively. he ultimately sounds upset that we will lose such a beautiful and important ability. doesn’t mesh well with belligerent. indignant isn’t awesome either, but it seems a better fit.</p>
<p>jlee4001: was the question actually ambiguous? if not, then i don’t think there are any chances of CB throwing out that question. i don’t remember any ambiguity in there; all the necessary lengths were given, if i recall correctly.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure i read the big circle and small circle question carefully and it was clear that the radius of the smaller circle was 3 and the distance from the perimeter of the smaller circle to the perimeter of the outer circle was 5. </p>
<p>the questions labelled the points of intersection and it said that AD (i don’t remember the actual letters) is equal to 5, where A was the perimeter of the outer circle and D was the perimeter of the inner circle.</p>
<p>i could be wrong, but half the time i get all the sat math all right, and half the time i get one wrong… i take a lot of tests… thank heavens the sat math is so much easier than the act math.</p>
<p>I agree SideDishes, just attempting to play devil’s advocate and be slightly optimistic lol. Here’s the thing, when questions are thrown out and let’s say person x got the thrown out question right does CB still add a point onto person X’s score or what?</p>